All of a sudden, College Football Playoff expansion talk has exploded. There’s even some substance to it. This isn’t just fans chattering online about how the four-team format doesn’t work or is inherently unfair. This is actually coming from Bill Hancock and the CFP, who mentioned that expansion to the Playoff was discussed during spring meetings at the end of a press release.
There are two pretty impactful points to this. The first is that the powers that be are actually considering expansion, despite normally smiling and saying they’re very happy with how the system is currently set up.